You Have to Show Up. Every. Day.
There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.”
This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they want to achieve and has even helped me when thinking about the significance of competition (turns out, most of your potential competitors won’t even show up, least of all actually do the work to compete with you).
But it’s easy to lose the details of what this really looks like when captured with just a pithy quotation.
80% of success is showing up. Every. Day.
Moving from Fuzzy Aspiration to Goal
Most people have fuzzy aspirations. If you ask them what they want to have in life, they might tell you “more money,” or “a happy family,” or “a nice job and a good car.” They may get a little more granular, like saying how many kids they want or how much money they want to earn, but these aspirations rarely move into being “goals.” Goals, unlike fuzzy aspirations, actually have a path of things that must happen in order for the goal to happen.
The process of going from fuzzy aspirations to goals is something worth paying attention to in itself. Actually showing up on the set to get something done requires that you ask yourself, what is it that I want to get done?
...When you’ve moved from goal to habit, you’ve exceeded 80% of your potential competition.
--Zak Slayback
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